DESCRIPTION: Dinotrace: SUGGESTIONS DOCUMENT
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GUI:	
  Menus:
	Add standard window menu

	Additional keyboard shortcuts, such as Customize/ReRead, and one
	for all of the Signal pull-down menu selections.

  Display:
	Assign color to state changes.  For example, High=red, Low=blue,
	Z=black, or that type of thing.  Signal states are difficult to
	pick out in large trace files, and color would help. [Ted Steubing]

	Allow the user to associate a visual appearance with a value, just
	as you do with value names on buses. [Tim Leonard]

	STATE_ZU with U's of lower amplitute to show mixes of unknowns and
	tristates.
	
  Time:	
	I'd also like the ability to "hide" time periods (much like you can
	hide signals).  This would allow me to ignore initialization stuff if
	it got captured (hide beginning to time n) or to hide junk after the
	problem area (from time n to end of time). [Steve Glaser]

	Have method of decoupling the multiple windows so one doesn't
	scroll with the other.  [Marco Zamora]
	
  Closer to Microsoft standard:
	Multi windows per file:
	    filename.foo:1	filename.foo:2

	Mouse buttons
	    Left select, second click unselect; shift select another,
		ctrl select range,  holding and movement keeps selecting
		Drag-And-Drop, drag moves or copies
		Middle pan
		Right menu

  Misc GUI:
	Resizable signal name window
	
	More intuitive signal selection window to make it easier to find signals
	
	Holding mb1 on the scroll arrows in the waveform window does not
	allow a screen update until the mb1 is released, makes it hard to
	tell how far you have scrolled left or right when scrolling this
	way

	Mouse grabbable/movable cursors
	
	Mouse-click & drag zoom selection in the waveform, right-click
	zoom-out from center of waveform

Core:	
  GROUPS!!!
	Whole groups of hiearchys can be moved
	Allow hierarchy browsing.  Remap -> to ., then use . for hierarchy.

  Config:
	Store in .dinotrace directory (list last files; edit dinotrace_recent.dino)

	Customize/Reread does not seem to handle the signal_copy command in
	an intuitive manner.  It will create another copy of the signal in
	the trace.
	
  Signals:
	Vector expand/collapse
	Per-signal heights	-- fallback to default (if 0)
	Find a change on a signal
	Signal action popup
	Z signals that aren't applicable in pipelines (_c12 in tss)
	
	Fix adding or move a signal to the very bottom of the waveform,
	it only allows insertion before an existing signal.

  Radixes:
	Add negative numbers:
		hex (unsign/2comp/1comp)
		dec (unsign/2comp/1comp)
		binary (unsign/2comp/1comp)

  Diff:
	Have a method to display the difference between two trace-files,
	could be implemented by xoring two inputs and displaying the
	result.  [Paul Wasson]

  Value searches:
	Allow wildcards and symbolic state names in value searches.

  Signal states:
	Limiting to 128 is problematic, especially with one-hot machines.
	[Glenn Garvey]

	Can you allow wildcarding (in bin) for signal states? [Mike Kagen]
	signal_states *->*CPM*<7:0> = 00000xxx=nop,
		00001xxx=rsvd,
		0001xxxx=rsvd, etc, etc

   Printing:
	Support color postscript.

   Trace format:	
	Support LSI Traces. [Josh Belkin]

	Have pre-pruning to eliminate signals from .dmp files. [Ted Steubing]

   Neatness:
	Get rid of orignal leftover fixed string sizes